minimal surfaces

i have been a Generative Components user for a long time and only an occasional grasshopper user. but i have been using it more and though i would start to port my C# libraries over. the first one is a minimal surface generator. i will release it as soon as i get 2 bugs worked out.

here are some screen shots. the calculations are fast enough for real time feedback which is good.

the plugin takes 4 boundary curves and stretches a minimal surface between them (think of the 4 curves as wires you dip in soap like frei otto)

after i finish this i may port over a plugin that can read maya nParticles in real time and display them as point clouds with all the extra data (acceleration, speed, size, color...)

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Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on January 31, 2010 at 7:15am

i was able to get grasshopper to create the a tetragonal disphenoid and then into rhombic dodecahedron. this was inspired from Ken Brakke work with surface evolver.

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Permalink Reply by Adel Zakout on January 31, 2010 at 8:00am

Nice :) when can we expect it ;)

Best,

Adel

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Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on January 31, 2010 at 12:59pm

very soon as i was able to get one bug out of the way (thanks to this forum). the other bug should not take long, there is just a counting error somewhere and it should not be there since it works fine in GC!

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Permalink Reply by Adel Zakout on January 31, 2010 at 1:15pm

Great :) Looking forward to it ..

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Permalink Reply by Tudor Cosmatu on January 31, 2010 at 2:22pm

Looking forward to give it a try!

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Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on February 11, 2010 at 5:49pm

i am releasing the first iteration of the minimal surface generator. you can get the file on my site at

http://www.cerver.org/?page_id=5

enjoy,
post any problems you have in this thread.
-robert

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Permalink Reply by Vittorio Menna on February 11, 2010 at 6:57pm

very handy! thanx for sharing it

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Permalink Reply by Ivan Kiryakov on February 11, 2010 at 6:09pm

just tried it. it's a lot of fun!
thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Claas Eicke Kuhnen on February 13, 2010 at 1:55am

Pretty nice module. Works fine.

Is there a chance to enhance this edge curve module to also utilize curves on a curve
and making it work similar to a curve network node?

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Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on February 13, 2010 at 6:34am

it should work fine with curves on a curve. the module just needs 4 curves.

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Permalink Reply by Carlo Beltracchi on February 13, 2010 at 4:19am

I'm going to try It! Seems that it doesn't work with the 0.6.0059 version. I can't see the scripting component!

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Many thanks!!!